Airborne Weapons Layer

The Missile Defense Agency and the Air Force were supposed to submit a cost-benefit analysis of the Airborne Weapons Layer to lawmakers with the Pentagon's fiscal year 2013 budget request in February. Senate appropriators, in their report accompanying the FY-13 defense spending bill approved Aug. 2, note the analysis was not submitted. "The committee understands that the analysis is partially complete," the report states, calling for the Air Force secretary and MDA chief "to brief the congressional defense committees not later than 90 days after enactment of this act on their findings to date."